Let campuses handle campus speech
Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, April 20, 2017. Colleges and universities, we like to think, are bastions of robust debate, free speech and thoughtful exploration of even the most controversial issues... Read More
NC Spin Articles
More tax cuts will neglect needs and risk deficits
Editorial by Durham Herald-Sun, April 19, 2017. The General Assembly’s own Fiscal Research Division, not a partisan part of the state legislature, has some scary news for Republicans planning their... Read More
Separating outrage from reality
One of the joys of growing up in the 1970s was rotting your brain with Saturday morning cartoons while rotting your teeth with sugary cereal. But darned if they didn't sneak in some mental nutrition... Read More
Craft brewers vs. big beer
Back during World War II, the US Army held military exercises called maneuvers in Anson County. My grandfather had a peach farm in Lilesville and also held the franchise for several brands of beer... Read More
Bannon's fall = Democrats opening
It’s good that Steve Bannon has been eclipsed in the court of the Sun King. By all accounts, he’s a hate-spewing, fear-mongering, immigrant-bashing, Muslim-banning, dark force. But Bannon did have... Read More
Looking over his shoulder
Watching Sean Hannity’s like watching a celebrity say the same thing over and over – it wears out quickly. But somehow, Bill O’Reilly wasn’t hum-drum – he had a knack for entertainment. So... Read More
High taxes, welfare state can waste 'investments' in human capital
The North Carolina Senate’s recently-proposed $1 billion tax cut plan was met with howls of protest from the Left, most of whom decried the potential “cuts” to state government programs... Read More
School districts prepare for disruptions as Senate refuses to ease class sizes
North Carolina’s largest public school system may be warning of “enormous disruptions” without speedy action from state lawmakers on a looming class size funding crisis, but key education... Read More
Society, democracy needs better journalism
Veteran CBS News journalist Bob Schieffer closed out an extraordinary round of discussions recently at the Newseum with a call for even better journalism – and a reminder of its place and importance... Read More
The wrong way to reform North Carolina courts
This is the story of how two North Carolina legislatures approached court reform — one with prudent professionalism and the other with seat-of-the-pants politics. This is the 50th anniversary of a... Read More
